Research & Journals

Research in our institute

Research areas of the Medieval Studies Institute are presented in faculty interests, through events, and in publications. Browse our faculty page for their areas of interest and our collection of journals to see how faculty are integrating their foci into publications.

Our students and faculty can participate in Mediaevalia at the Lilly Library, which aims to educate students beyond text in books by examining the material aspects of books from the Late Antiquity to the Reformation period. Our annual spring symposium, organized by our Graduate Student Advisory Committee, welcomes speakers from Indiana University and other prestigious universities across the country to discuss various areas relating to medieval studies, including orality, gender, and symbolism, and more.

MEST played a crucial role in my graduate education and in my professional and intellectual formation as a medievalist at-large. Being part of the MEST community opened my research and teaching interests towards wider concepts shared among multiple disciplines.

NEH Funds Ground-Breaking History of Philosophy Project at IU

Rega Wood’s Richard Rufus Project receives $330,000

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Richard Rufus Project (RRP) at Indiana University $330,000 in funding to support research that is changing the way scholars understand the history of philosophy. Many of Richard Rufus’ philosophical works, lost for 600 years, were rediscovered by Professor Rega Wood in the 1980s. In the ensuing decades, Professor Wood of IU has dedicated her career to collecting, editing, and publishing his treatises.